Lucky_Jack

Reply to Are you people keeping up with the AOL/Trillian issue? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Someone please explain to me just who/what Trillian is and why they would be hacking (into?) their system? Some reference was made to SPAM, to which I am totally opposed. The way you said this it sounds like Trillian is using mail server user lists to generate SPAM address lists. Is this correct? If so, it would seem that even MSN is exposed to this kind of abuse. Cari, Do you have a link to an online news article?

Reply to Graphical interface in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I think everyone has missed the point. This is (still is?) an _ALPHA_ test. At the beginning of the beta level of the OS/2 version there was a lot of nice things missing that were staged in later in the beta. I expect much to filter in as the builds keep coming. This puts my choice on this poll as F) - this poll is way too early. BTW, has everyone except me quit testing or is it getting very difficult to find new bugs. Cheers, Jack

Reply to us alpha testers should be called inspectors. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Cari, I jsut tried, but it will only let me choose from a list. Also, I have been unable to find a way to change my "nickname". Any clues? Thanks, Jack

Reply to issues still unresolved at this time, care to add to this list? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Great.

Reply to Instead of attacking an enemy ship my ship moves onto its tile. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

And --- Could the ship I was trying to attack been one or more of the ships that had been orbit? If so, where are they going in such a hurry? And why don't I have control of them? Cheers, Jack

Reply to Instead of attacking an enemy ship my ship moves onto its tile. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

You mean a star can be captured even when there are defenders or battle cruisers in orbit? I thought they would defend the system. And where did they go when I de-orbitted them? (I forgot to mention that: I sent all 12 out of orbit, but they did not show up north of the star.) I am sure (almost) that there were 12 ships in orbit. Could there be a bug in the defense of a system with the maximum number of ships such that the engine thinks there are none? Chee

Instead of attacking an enemy ship my ship moves onto its tile. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This is on a gigantic galaxy with 10+ hours of play. I captured a system that, strange enough, had 12 ships in orbit that could have been either defenders or battle crusers (the "in orbit" icons of these ships are too similar to tell the difference). So I thought, hey, they decided to come over to my side (of course, I knew this was a bug). Since then I have a battleship that was sitting next to this system when I captured it that seems to be able to move into a tile occupied b

Reply to ship pathing real funky in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I have been giving my last post on this thread considerable thought. While I have always expected a ship to exit from orbit to the tile north of the star, there have been times when I wish I could tell the ship which direction to exit. Could this be put on the wish list? Thanks, Jack

Reply to ship pathing real funky in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

N. As I have always expected. I have to admit that when they went south on the first build I was supprised, but in the rest of the builds they all went north every time for me. Cheers, Jack

Reply to issues still unresolved at this time, care to add to this list? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Does this mean that all of the other issues/problems we have reported have been solved and will be fixed in the final alpha build? Cheers, Jack

Reply to SmartException in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ideas like this seem to take a nights sleep to occur to me. Cari, You mentioned that you were able to customize "smartexception" for information specific to GalCiv (Your words were "add support for it into the GalCiv code). Does it allow you to include specific user info such as the registration info on a user's system? How about the compiled version of GalCiv.EXE, or the date/time from the GALCIV.EXE file? How about the time/date of the crash? In some cases sp

Reply to SmartException in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

This tool is _GREAT_!!! For all to see how wonderful this tool is for diagnostics, here is a clip from the exception report file of three crashes I generated from having too many improvements tied to one tech (tech 63 - nanofrequencyelectronics): Stardock SmartException Logging Information ------------------------------------------- OS Version : Windows ME Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (IBM) Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION Cras

Reply to Crash, but no diagnostics. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Just for the fun of it, and to see how well "smartexception" works, I swapped some improvements back to tech 63 and tried again. I found that the number 13 is significant, that is, it can handle 13 improvements for one tech. Perhaps, if this is the correct limit, it would be a good idea to add a comment at the top of the improvement file to reflect this. Also, I am going to post the exception report in the thread introducing "smartexception" so that all can see how great<

Reply to copy protection? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Perhaps by retaining some small but crucial file, such as the tech or ship file until the game is registered would do the trick. That way the game is unplayable until it is registered. If this is too extreme, how about an abreviated version of a critical but small file, such as the ship or tech file, then they could start the game, but would need to register it before getting more than, say, half way through a game. Cheers, Jack

Reply to Enemy gets extra move to attack!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Cari, My point is that when I move a ship next to an enemy ship it attacks immediately while I still have other ships to move in the same turn. This is what seems so anomalous. After all, it is suppose to still be my turn. Cheers, Jack

Reply to ship pathing real funky in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Cari, I like the term "tile" for where I have sometimes been using the terms "space" (as in a spot of a segmet) or "square". So the planet was 3 tiles below the upper galaxy boundary with two empty tiles above it. Cheers, Jack

Reply to SmartException in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Got it.

Reply to Enemy gets extra move to attack!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Paul, I have seen this too, when my ship's defense exceeded the other ship's attack. On balance, however, I have suffered more than I have benefitted. Cheers, Jack

Suggestion for website forum - "Last posted by" column in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Another bit of information I would find useful in the message board would be another column in the list of threads to contain the name of the last poster to the thread. This may, however, require more room for some screen sizes (which could be handled with a horizontal scroll bar). Thanks, Jack

Reply to Enemy gets extra move to attack!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I really don't think it is part of the game. First, it is inconsistant. Second, the OS/2 version did not act this way. Third, it seems unfair that the enemy can do this but I can't. Cheers, Jack

Reply to One last build? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Here's my voice, adding to the plea. Please? Jack

Enemy gets extra move to attack!! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I discovered the following two oddities on a gigantic galaxy after building up quite an armada (so did all five of the enemy races): When I move one of my ships into a space next to an enemy ship it atacks me. Also, if an enemy ship moves into a space next to one of mine it should have no more moves but it still attacks me. My debug file is over 4Meg in size, so I don't dare try to open it.

Reply to Alpha phase nearly done in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I enjoyed being involved. It was a real blast. Thanks for inviting me. Cheers, Jack

Reply to ship pathing real funky in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

After leaving orbit and I had given it a destination it moved one space up to the edge of the galaxy. There were no other objects withing several spaces (I am not sure how you define pixels. How many pixels does a ship move on the main screen when it goes up?) Cheers, Jack

Reply to My ships on autopilot avoid events. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Good. Thanks, Jack